MLB Thread - 2024

The A's are negotiating a lease extension with Oakland again. I'm not too optimistic at this point, but they're still the Oakland A's until they officially leave town. Not sure I'll have the stomach to watch them more than once or twice. Don't think I'll go to a game in Oakland either but I might go see them at Angel Stadium when they're in town and wear the hat while I still can.
 
That should be fun.

Though I thought this would be the first season of there being no over the hill remnants of the championship teams. Not counting Pat the Bat as a coach.

Panda is likely for spring training fun but I still wouldn’t be surprised if they brought back Craw.
 
SLAB said:
Health depending, I love it. Still have zero hope for the season but he’ll hit some fun nukes.
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I'm pretty excited for this year. Lee should be a lot of fun and we're finally committing to giving our young guys a serious look. Harrison/Hicks/Winn/Beck as the projected guys around Webb this year while Cobb and Ray are out? At least gives a reason to tune in just about everyday.

It's just the wrong year to sign a Snell/Chapman type. The best time to add those guys is like 2 years down the line if/when Lee/Bailey/Luciano/Matos/Harrison, etc are really exploding and you need 1 or 2 pieces to really put you over the top. All those dudes do is make sure you don't get a look at your young guys and not get you any closer to actually competing in the playoffs.
 
Matt Chapman has been inconsistent with the bat but he's in a very small pool of players who are in contention for "best overall defender in baseball" status every year. Watching him play 3B in Oakland for 5-ish years (2020 only sortof counts) was a supreme privilege and it makes me sad that he can't seem to find a team willing to lock him up for what should be the prime years of his career. In an alternate world, he would still be the face of the Oakland A's -- because even with Marcus Semien, Matt Olson, and Sean Murphy all absolutely crushing the ball and contending for Gold Gloves every year, Chapman felt like the leader of the A's the entire time he was on that team.
 
hrdboild said:
Matt Chapman has been inconsistent with the bat but he's in a very small pool of players who are in contention for "best overall defender in baseball" status every year. Watching him play 3B in Oakland for 5-ish years (2020 only sortof counts) was a supreme privilege and it makes me sad that he can't seem to find a team willing to lock him up for what should be the prime years of his career. In an alternate world, he would still be the face of the Oakland A's -- because even with Marcus Semien, Matt Olson, and Sean Murphy all absolutely crushing the ball and contending for Gold Gloves every year, Chapman felt like the leader of the A's the entire time he was on that team.
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I hope he gets to an NL contender that's not the Dodgers. Pretty much my only goal this year is them not winning and enjoying the Giants young guys.
 
The_Jamal said:
I hope he gets to an NL contender that's not the Dodgers. Pretty much my only goal this year is them not winning and enjoying the Giants young guys.
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Well, I'm pretty sure you'll get your hope, as the Dodgers would appear to be done building this year's team. But I wouldn't drop a lot of money on the field vs. the Dodgers for the next few years. Playoffs add a lot of randomness and the Braves (and perhaps Orioles/Yankees) are very good but the Dodgers are set up to absolutely burn out the lights on the scoreboard.
 

Oh???

Absolutely insane deal for a dude who's been a 4 WAR player each of the last 3 years. Frustrating hitter at times with his strikeouts, but as hdr has alluded to, dude has a claim as the best defender in baseball. And he's got some power, absolutely.

Can't say Farhan isn't cooking. Hicks, Chapman, Soler, Lee, Ray while basically fully getting rid of the disaster off-season last year is incredible. Still probably not close to matching the Dodgers, but I think we should be a lot of fun this year.
 
Congrats Giants fans! Matt Chapman is a joy to watch play baseball and your pitching staff will love him. If he can recover some of his early career offensive production (he finished 4th in the AL in WAR in 2018 and 5th in the AL in WAR in 2019) he's an MVP candidate. If he continues to chase home runs at the expense of every other aspect of offense, well he'll still be a joy to watch play defense and occasionally frustrating at the plate.
 

Sucks the Dodgers built the greatest team ever, because damn... this lineup kind of rocks super hard.
 
The_Jamal said:

Sucks the Dodgers built the greatest team ever, because damn... this lineup kind of rocks super hard.
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The Giants aren't my team but I would have faith in these guys if they were. The Dodgers are notorious for their ability to implode late in the season regardless of how undefeatable they look on paper. And in baseball the "we've got nothing to lose" factor should never be underestimated!
 
The_Jamal said:

Sucks the Dodgers built the greatest team ever, because damn... this lineup kind of rocks super hard.
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Just send Conforto out and I’m happy.
 
The_Jamal said:

Sucks the Dodgers built the greatest team ever, because damn... this lineup kind of rocks super hard.
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That is actually quite a solid 3-4-5...:):):)
 
I had already forgotten that the Giants signed Bob Melvin to be their manager too. Making an early play for converting Oakland fans over to the Black and Orange by bringing in two of the most universally beloved former A's personalities is a smart business decision. I'm pretty much done with MLB for the next decade if this Las Vegas move happens but after that... who knows. I might be shopping for a new team eventually if I miss watching MLB bad enough and the new commish isn't a complete fraud like the current one.
 
hrdboild said:
The Giants aren't my team but I would have faith in these guys if they were. The Dodgers are notorious for their ability to implode late in the season regardless of how undefeatable they look on paper. And in baseball the "we've got nothing to lose" factor should never be underestimated!
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Having BoMel managing is good for an extra five or six wins on its own. A couple of bad years in San Diego that were completely out of his control seem to have ruined the guy’s reputation as one of the best managers in the game
 

Fielding a flyball in that thing would be a nightmare. Also where are the lights? And isn't that giant glass wall pointed directly towards the sunset? How is that going to work?
 
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Tetsujin said:

Fielding a flyball in that thing would be a nightmare. Also where are the lights? And isn't that giant glass wall pointed directly towards the sunset? How is that going to work?
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If my orientation is correct, I think that's more north or northwest than directly west. Northwest, of course, could still be a problem, but the sun might be setting behind the casinos at its most northerly extent.

It kind of looks like the entire roof is an LED panel, so there are your lights...I don't know how that would be to field a fly ball, but it might be OK - since the ball would be darker than the background rather than lighter, it might be somewhat like fielding during a day game. Obviously they couldn't have the LED panels in the roof be too bright, but one would hope they have considered that. One would hope.
 
Capt. Factorial said:
It kind of looks like the entire roof is an LED panel, so there are your lights...I don't know how that would be to field a fly ball, but it might be OK - since the ball would be darker than the background rather than lighter, it might be somewhat like fielding during a day game. Obviously they couldn't have the LED panels in the roof be too bright, but one would hope they have considered that. One would hope.
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Interesting option for LED lights built into the roof panels - I wonder if they would have color options, etc., to do things like fake fireworks after a grand slam, or winning the game, or whatever.

Hmmm, this gives me an idea - they should build, like, this big Sphere-ical building with LEDs on the inside to be able to use as backdrops for concerts, etc., for a totally immersive experience instead of just a small rectangular one used on a case-by-case basis for various artists! Oh, they could even have LEDs on the outside to advertise things and make cool videos of things that are round! Now that would be cool. ;)
 

On the one hand, Josh Donaldson is an intensely problematic racist. On the other hand, he still supports the Oakland A’s
 

Even after years of watching the MaGoofs somehow manage to ruin every single harebrained scheme they cooked up, I can never remember an owner getting as thoroughly taken to the woodshed by the public as John Fisher has been with the Vegas boondoggle.
 
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With John Fisher John Fishering, I'm currently looking for a new go-to MLB team and I gotta say that the incredibly internet brained Fan Conduct video from the Minnesota Twins has instantly catapulted them to the top of my rankings.

 
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